Title |
A survey of factors associated with the successful recognition of agonal breathing and cardiac arrest by 9-1-1 call takers: design and methodology
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Published in |
BMC Emergency Medicine, July 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-227x-9-14 |
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Authors |
Christian Vaillancourt, Jan L Jensen, Jeremy Grimshaw, Jamie C Brehaut, Manya Charette, Ann Kasaboski, Martin Osmond, George A Wells, Ian G Stiell |
Abstract |
Cardiac arrest victims most often collapse at home, where only a modest proportion receives life-saving bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. As many as 40% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims have agonal or abnormal breathing in the first minutes following cardiac arrest. 9-1-1 call takers may wrongly interpret agonal breathing as a sign of life, and not initiate telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructions. Improving 9-1-1 call takers' ability to recognize agonal breathing as a sign of cardiac arrest could result in improved bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims. |
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